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tork rench

03-16-2008 12:40:47

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Well its spring in MN.and field work is right around the corner I think it would be neat to hear some of the stories about getting stuck in the mud (doing field work) as a kid and what trouble if any or how bad you buried the family's tractor.

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HeyPigFarmer

03-17-2008 13:02:37

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Re: getting stuck -spring field work in reply to tork rench, 03-16-2008 12:40:47

My dad used to moldboard plow everything every year, even the nastiest swamp we farmed. So every year we would get stuck, from the time I was 8 up until about 22 I remember getting stuck at least once per year. Looks dry on top, a sponge underneath.

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dave2

03-17-2008 08:31:03

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Re: getting stuck -spring field work in reply to tork rench, 03-16-2008 12:40:47

Depends on whether you ask me or my wife of whether I'm a kid or not but....

Friday, I buried my truck almost to the axles. I had 2 tons in the bed and tried to put it in a tight spot that was too wet. It didn't rain Saturday, so Sunday the ground was a little more presentable. My recovery was a classic though. I wanted to get it out before the local experts showed up with the coulda, shoulda, woulda's, and was by myself. It was too wet to get it out with my tractor without having someone drive the truck also. So, I hooked everything up, tied a couple of tires to the front for padding, and a long cord to the coil wire of the truck that reached to my tractor. Started the truck and put it in 4 lo and third (sounded like a good place to start) gear and let the wheels spin. Then got on the tractor and started pulling. as soon as I got it out of the spot and it started pulling itself on solid ground, I stopped the tractor, ran back and stopped the truck. The string to the coil wire was in case I couldn't get to the truck quick enough i could just pull the string and kill the motor. The tires were the overall backup plan. That oughta get me on the cover of safety today huh????
Dave

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Nancy Howell

03-17-2008 06:08:30

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Re: getting stuck -spring field work in reply to tork rench, 03-16-2008 12:40:47

Hubby is out of town, so I'll pass his story along. About 15 yrs ago our neighbor, Wendell, came over to ask for help in getting his tractor out. He had already enlisted the help of another neighbor who had a small, modern JD tractor (don't know the model). James started up our 48 JD A and headed over to his place. Wendell was lucky to be alive. There is a gravel pit along the back side of his place and several washes that were 30 ft. deep. He had gotten too close and the tractor was actually over the edge, but somehow the bush hog wedged and kept the tractor from going completely over the edge. The smaller JD couldn't pull it out. They hooked a cable from the stuck tractor to a very large tree to keep it from going over. Then they hooked the small JD to the stuck tractor, then chained our 48A to the smaller JD. Why they did it that way, I don't know. I guess they figured if the tractor shifted the wrong way, the other two, plus the cable to the tree would keep it from going over. When they started pulling with the small JD, nothing. Then James eased the clutch in on our 48A and everything moved. They were able to get the tractor back on top and on solid ground. We had the bush hog on and there wasn't much room to turn around. Wendell's little boy asked James how he was going to get that "big tractor" turned around and out of there. James just smiled, hit the right wheel brake, pivoted the tractor around with the bush hog swinging neatly underneath the bottom strand of the fence. Little Wesley's eyes nearly popped out of his head. He'd never seen a tractor turn like that. He was very lucky his daddy had not been injured of killed that day.

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casered

03-16-2008 18:47:08

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Re: getting stuck -spring field work in reply to tork rench, 03-16-2008 12:40:47

I was doing some harrowing one time witht the Case 1270. It was night and I just finished up the field and was pulling out of it into a small grass strip next to it to unhook the harrow for the night and the tractor suddenly wouldn"t steer. Turns out the front was into the mud about a foot, I thought it would get better so I tried to keep going and it only got worse to the point the whole tractor was stuck. The front axle was buried to the point were you almost couldnt see it anymore and the transmission was starting to dig a trough about 6 inches deep into the mud from working back and forth. Had to get another tractor to drag the harrow out of the way and then tried to back the tractor out but it wouldn"t budge. Left it sit till the next morning to get it out. Our next biggest tractors at the time were two farmall M"s. It took both of those tractors plus our Case backhoe in front of them and the 1270 itself to get it pulled out backwards finally. Boy did I ever get to hear it from my pop that day. I think I washed about 300lbs of mud off the thing that day. (LOL)

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MCL

03-16-2008 18:32:28

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Re: getting stuck -spring field work in reply to tork rench, 03-16-2008 12:40:47

My dad told me this story. When he was a kid his dad sent him to help a neighbor combine wheat. Dad was on a Super 55 Oliver with an AC combine. The neighbor's son was out there with a Farmall M and some type of combine (I forget). He made fun of Dad and the little Super 55. It was wet. Let's just say he wasn't laughing when he was stuck in the mud with that heavy M and Dad drove around him with the little 55 and kept on going.

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JoeBob/IN

03-16-2008 18:29:50

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Re: getting stuck -spring field work in reply to tork rench, 03-16-2008 12:40:47

Well, too many times to remember! Burried the 2390 and 20' no-till drill a few years ago... going along a wet spot without makin a track then just fell to the draw bar. Could move about 5 feet but couldn't get back up on the solid ground. Been stuck plantin several times since taking the job over in '98. Thought I really did it once when we still ran a disk was in a muck field with a MF 1800 4wd. Duals all around and a 24' tandem disk. Started spinning then quit moving. Amazingly I snaked my way out. Would steer left then right then left and all over again. Burried to the belly but finally crept to solid ground!
Worst ever seen a combine stuck was just last year. Three tractors couldn't even budge it. TR 95 with the head on the ground. Problem was it was in the corner with ditches on both sides and water standing on the third and facing the only semi solid ground. Finally decided to get my buddy with a Hitachi 160 excavator to pull. I can attest that NH's have pretty stout rear axle carriers! Took some lifting and pulling but the Hitachi won. Didn't even strain the hydraulics. I could go on and on! Not bad for a 28 year old. You think we would learn to just stay away wouldn't ya!

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John S-B

03-16-2008 18:28:06

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Re: getting stuck -spring field work in reply to tork rench, 03-16-2008 12:40:47

I got stuck last spring trying to disk some tire tracks from a backhoe. They ran a water line through a hayfield and I crossed too close to a parallel angle instead of crossing at a ninety degree angle. I just used some sheets of 1 1/2" plywood, cribbing and a bottle jack to raise it up. I filled in the hole with some sand as I raised it and drove it out after two hours.

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toolz

03-16-2008 16:46:25

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Re: getting stuck -spring field work in reply to tork rench, 03-16-2008 12:40:47

In high school I was working for a neighbor with a not-too-bright son. The boy was in some sandy soil near a highway with the 806 and plow, and sunk it to the axles. We tried the 4020 and 3020 together, wouldn't budge. Then we called the local Chevy dealer to bring out the wrecker. He chocked it up on the shoulder of the highway and started winching. Of course, the front end just came up, so he said tie it down with the 3020. He let her rip again, and bent the wrecker frame about 2 feet up right behind the cab! About the funniest thing I'd ever seen. There was a carrier bearing near the bend, so the driveshaft was ok, and off he drove to town. What a sight. We then called out the big (expensive) semi wrecker from the next town, and he got it right out. The Chevy dealer cut and plated the frame on the little wrecker, and used it for years after. Turned in to a rather costly episode.

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chrisalma

03-16-2008 15:09:34

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Re: getting stuck -spring field work in reply to tork rench, 03-16-2008 12:40:47

Dad got stuck one year trying to work a wet hole while fieldcultivating with the 1456, he was upset that I didnt see him and he had to walk the half mile to the house and get me and the other tractor. One year later I get the same tractor stuck in the same wet hole(I think faceing the same way and spot)no prob I started walking to the house kicking clods, then I could hear dad 1/4 mile away."Cant believe you Got the @#%*# tractor stuck what the #@$%%@ was you thinking and so on as he was unhooking the planter on the 1066. Guess he saw me. I just turned back with a smile and walked to the tractor he gets there and I ask him if this brought back any memories.hahaha he didnt say a thing after that. We laugh about it now, even though I was laughing then. LOL Iam even smile-n now.

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Paul from MI

03-16-2008 14:52:57

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Re: getting stuck -spring field work in reply to tork rench, 03-16-2008 12:40:47

Wasn't me for once. Been stuck a lot of times, but always got out without much of a problem. Maybe this will be the year? Neighbor was disking with a White 2-150 and a 18' disk in some overgrown fields. Ran over another old disk left when the previous owner got stuck. Parked the front axle in between the front & rear gangs. After we buried an IH 806, IH MD, and an IH 560 trying to pull it out. We broke innumerable log chains and lost several in the mud, never to be found again. Finally we cut the old disk in four pieces with a torch, pulled it out with a backhoe and 150' of cable. Then pulled all of the rest out one at a time. It was about as long and hard of an afternoon as I have ever spent.
Paul

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rusty wheel

03-16-2008 14:43:33

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Re: getting stuck -spring field work in reply to tork rench, 03-16-2008 12:40:47

My grandpa was plowing grass land back in the fifties with a Massy Harris 30 and two bottom plow. Got stuck to the axels. Got the allis wc out of the barn, went to the field with a log chain. Pulled the plow out backwards and then the Massy. Grandpa told us, (me and my brother) not to put the AC back in the barn. The clutch spring was really stiff on the AC. When we got to the barn it started to rain so my brother decided to put the tractor away. He got it stopped just right but then his foot slipped off the clutch pedal and he jumped forward and broke a big picture window dad had bought off the neighbor when he remodeled his house. Paid $50 for the window. Wedged the tractor between the manger and a beam holding the barn up. We left it set. Thought the barn was comming down but it didn't. My brother was 12 and I was 10 years old..... ...rw

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johndeereman

03-16-2008 14:34:50

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Re: getting stuck -spring field work in reply to tork rench, 03-16-2008 12:40:47

i was fresh out of high school working for a guy i was in charge of overseeing everything i had a teenager helpin do field work he was driving a jd 4430 with duals and a 16 foot offset disc told him see that wet spot he said yep i said work your way around it on the outside get closer everytime when you start spinning lift the disc and get out well he drove right through the center right off the bat had it buried so far we couldnt even unhook the disc i got to it wheels were still spinning but no mud was coming up took a jd 4320 2 jd 4020 and a cat articulated loader to get it out

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billonthefarm

03-16-2008 13:42:19

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Re: getting stuck -spring field work in reply to tork rench, 03-16-2008 12:40:47

Story is it was too wet, end of story. bill
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Gary from Muleshoe

03-16-2008 13:36:09

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Re: getting stuck -spring field work in reply to tork rench, 03-16-2008 12:40:47

I remember one year when I was working for a dairy farmer in East KS. We walked out on this field to a known wet spot and stuck a 12 inch rod down and it came out dry. Boss said go on across it shouldn't be a problem. I was disking with a White 4-150 and got about to middle of this spot and it was like the ground opened up. I berried that White to the axles in about 30 seconds. It took a 1066 IH, a Ford 6000, and a small JD Dozer to get it out, then we had to get the disk out. Worst I ever got one stuck in my life. Wish I had pictures of it now.

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Allan In NE

03-16-2008 13:29:31

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Re: getting stuck -spring field work in reply to tork rench, 03-16-2008 12:40:47

I've been stuck once in my 60 some years.

Total stupidity on my part. Should have left the darned outfit sit in the yard where it belonged.

Allan

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triplerange

03-16-2008 16:20:15

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Re: getting stuck -spring field work in reply to Allan In NE, 03-16-2008 13:29:31

How did you manage that....don't you live in the desert?

Worst time I ever got stuck...first time we ever farmed my great-grandfather's farm. It was wet that year and Dad was worried we weren't gonna get all the corn in. Says can you run the disk after dark? I said yeah, I can run all night. He told me to start along the fence and work uphill. It was all sand so we figured I'd be ok. So I started out with the 2094 Case. I got about 10 rounds in and it was wet but I wasn't haven't all that bad of a time. Well the 11th round was sinkin in pretty good so decided to cut short. Well too late. I get the tractor about 90 degrees from the way I'm disking and sink her to the rearend. Well dad wasn't around at midnight so my mom and I went out there with the planter tractor, a 970 case and no duals. tried once... and didn't budge. Went to bed and next thing I knew dad was waking me up at 5:30 and asked what happened. So I showed him...it looked worse in the daylight than it did at night....so we go back to the farm and put the duals on the 970. My granpa shows up so we go out there with the 970 and grandpa gets his 185 allis with backhoe on it. well broke two chains...ok go back to the farm get the big cable the previous guy must'ave used when he got stuck. Well hooked every thing up and dug the mud away from the 2094 a little bit...unhooked the disk....water is pumping out of the ground. Well dad moved me about 2 feet... before digging the 970 in a little. Ok get another bite on the chain....out she comes! Gosh was I happy after that. Shot the morning though.

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